Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
I read with great interest Dr. Abba Hillel Silver’s trenchant article on the boycott in the weekend issue of the Bulletin and was greatly surprised to find him attacking publications for carrying articles tending to establish that the boycott of Nazi Germany is not completely successful.
For any one to hold to otherwise is to blind oneself deliberately to the facts of the situation and I do not think it fair of Dr. Silver to attack a publication for “Defeatism and sabotage of the worst sort.” If Dr. Silver is convinced that the boycott is eminently successful in this country, let him visit almost any department store in New York City or his own city of Cleveland. Let him talk confidentially with store executives and be told that the agitation against the sale of German goods is almost entirely negligible and let him study the passenger lists of German liners.
It is certainly not “falschood, even if not deliberate,” for a publication to sate the facts as they are. Rather, the facts should be a basis for renewed effort in making the boycott effective and if they are not palatable to protagonists of the boycott, the remedy is in teir hands-let them lead in making the boycott a competely effective weapon. But to state that this has already been accomplished is to mis-state the situation.
A Boycott Supporter. New York.
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